MOC - The Digital Necropolis and Cold Decadal Storage

● Evergreen

Examining the operational reality of personal archives across 10, 30, and 50-year horizons. How data survives unpaid cloud subscriptions, operating system obsolescence, bit-rot, cryptographic inheritance, and vendor bankruptcies.

Archival Invariants

• The Substrate Decay Vector: Magnetic media demagnetizes, flash memory suffers charge leakage, and optical media oxidizes. True decadal survival requires inert inorganic media (M-DISC), offline parity blocks, or cold paper-bound vault indexes.
• Cryptographic Succession: Passphrases and master keys outlive human memory through split-key inheritance (Shamir’s Secret Sharing) without relying on centralized hosted identity services.
• Runtime Independence: A personal archive that requires an active binary, specific Node runtime, or remote authentication token to read is an archive with an expiration date.

Connected Hubs & Dispatches

• [BSN-1013 - Plain Text as a Durable Substrate](BSN-1013 - Plain Text as a Durable Substrate)
• [BPT-1001 - The Bosun Architecture Specification](BPT-1001 - The Bosun Architecture Specification)
• [MOC - The Plain-Text Longevity Standard](MOC - The Plain-Text Longevity Standard)
• [MOC - Bosun PKM Tools](MOC - Bosun PKM Tools)